Donna Brazile: 2011's impasse relived today

4:24 PM,
Feb. 27, 2013

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Donna Brazile

If you are reading this, then it's likely you're one of the 27 percent of the American people who told Pew Research that they've heard "a lot" about "sequester" - the term most Washington politicians probably never want to hear for the rest of their careers.

Barely more than one-quarter of Americans are aware that our economy will soon suffer another congressionally manufactured crisis. After the last one, President Obama said, "Our economy didn't need Washington to come along with a manufactured crisis to make things worse. That was in our hands."